Dialogue is essential for transforming institutions into learning organizations, yet many well-known characteristics of academic health centers (AHCs) interfere with open discussion. Rigid hierarchies, intense competition for resources, and the power of peer review in advancement processes all hamper difficult conversations, thereby contributing to organizational silence, and at great cost to t...

This study examined naturally-occurring university classroom interactions at Iranian universities and provided an analysis of silence patterns as politeness strategies used by male and female students. Since empirical studies of silence in classroom settings are scarce, this paper aimed to explain such phenomena using participant interviews, classroom observation and detailed discourse analysis...

In this article I argue that non-disclosure agreements represent the latest in a continuum of tools used to silence women who seek justice response misconduct those authority. draw connection between use these apparently objective, non-corporeal organizational processes and historic scold’s bridle, corporeal instrument control applied physically silence. Specifically, both are on violence from ...

Employee silence is detrimental to organizations, and managers high in narcissism may create conditions that indirectly promote employee silence. Drawing on socio-analytic theory, three samples (Ns = 79, 125, 119), we investigated whether employees’ perceptions of manager trustworthiness mediated the relation between trait silence, this mediation was moderated by a social skill, apparent sincer...